About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Sunday, September 09, 2007

September 9......

September 9 is the 252nd (253rd in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 113 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Civil Liberties "He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates his duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." — Thomas Paine

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Coup D'état 2000 "This morning brings news from Florida that the final vote count there shows that Secretary Cheney and I have carried the state of Florida . . . And if that result is confirmed by an automatic recount as we expect it to be, then we have won the election. . . . We have to make sure the outcome is finalized as quickly as possible." — George W. Bush as the first recounts in Florida began. Lynn Sweet, "Confident Bush predicts he'll win Florida recount," Chicago Sun-Times, 11-8-00. At the time of this first recount, Bush led Gore by 1,700 votes.

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Honest business should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer." — Lester Maddox, governor of Georgia, arguing against the creation of a state consumer protection agency {Maddox first gained notoriety as a Georgia restaurant owner claiming the right to practice discrimination by refusing to serve African-Americans.}

Thought for the day: "Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1493 - Battle of Krbava field, a decisive defeat of Croats in Croatian struggle against the Ottoman Empire invasion.

● 1513 - James IV of Scotland is defeated by English forces and dies in the Battle of Flodden Field, ending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai.

● 1543 - Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is officially crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling.

● 1561 - The Colloquy of Poissy convened near Paris. Comprised of both French Catholic prelates and reformed Protestant theologians led by Theodore Beza, the council led to a 1562 edict offering a greater measure of freedom to French Protestants.

● 1590 - Rebecca Lemp, the wife of an accountant and mother of six, is burned at the stake as a witch in Nordlingen, Germany. Victim to political ambitions of two lawyers and a burgomaster, Lemp was arrested with 12 other women. She was tortured five times before confessing. Lemp was among 32 highly respected women who are burned as witches in Nordlingen that year. Historians estimate that as many as nine million European women were killed as witches in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.

● 1598 - A celebration was held for the newly completed Catholic church at San Juan de los Caballeros -- the first church erected in (what is today the state of) New Mexico. The town, founded this year by Juan de Onate, was a former Indian pueblo in the Chama River Valley.

● 1739 - Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts the town of Stono near Charleston, South Carolina.

● 1776 - The second Continental Congress officially made the term "United States", replacing the previous term "United Colonies."

● 1833 - The first tracts of the Oxford Movement (which sought to purify the English Church) were released. The series was forced to close in 1841, however, when Tract 90 was published, because it interpreted Anglicanism's "Thirty-Nine Articles" in too strong of a Roman Catholic direction.

● 1850 - Territories of New Mexico & Utah created when the Compromise of 1850 strips Texas of a third of its claimed territory (now parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Wyoming) in return for the U.S. federal government assuming $10 million of Texas's pre-annexation debt.

● 1863 - Dwight Moody's future song evangelist, Ira D. Sankey, 23, married Fanny Edwards, daughter of a Pennsylvania State Senator. Their marriage of 45 years bore two sons, one of whom -- Ira H. Sankey -- became a songwriter like his father.

● 1867 - Luxembourg gains independence

● 1869 - Anarchist, Haymarket martyr Louis Lingg born. Haymarket occurred when he was 19; convicted of Haymarket bombing, blew he himself up in jail. His last words in his address to the court in the Haymarket Trial - "I despise you. I despise your order, your laws, your force-propped authority. Hang me for it!"

● 1873 - Swinomish Reservation created for Lower Skagit and other tribes.

● 1880 - President Hayes visits San Francisco

● 1886 - The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized.

● 1887 - Alfred Landon, the American politician who ran against Franklin Roosevelt for United States president in 1936, was born. {He ran with two strikes against him, he was a Republican (widely blamed for the Great Depression) and he was a Roman Catholic (JFK would be the first successful Catholic candidate and to this point only.).}

● 1911 - Italy declared war on the Ottoman Turks and annexed Libya, Tripolitania, and Cyrenaica in North Africa.

● 1913 - Assn for Study of Negro Life & History organizes in Chicago

● 1914 - World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.

● 1919 - Over 1,000 Boston police strike when 19 union leaders are fired for organizing activities. The strike precipitated widespread looting by the citizenry. Massachusetts Governor Calvin Coolidge put down the strike by calling out the entire state militia and all strikers are fired.

● 1922 - Greek-Turkish war has ended with Turkish victory over the Greeks.

● 1923 - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party (CHP).

● 1924 - Hanapepe Massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii.

● 1934 - Birth of black radical poet Sonia Sanchez.

● 1942 - In a rare raid against the U.S. mainland, Japan drops incendiaries over Oregon in an attempt to set fire to the forests of Oregon and Washington. The forests failed to ignite. By contrast, well over two million Japanese citizens died in their homeland during the war.

● 1943 - Italy surrenders to the Allies.

● 1943 - World War II: The Allies land at Salerno and Taranto, Italy.

● 1944 - Allied forces liberate Luxembourg

● 1944 - World War II: The Fatherland Front takes power in Bulgaria through a military coup in the capital and armed rebellion in the country. A new pro-Soviet government is established.

● 1964 - Dynamite blast attributed to the Ku Klux Klan rocked the home of a black minister in McComb, Mississippi.

● 1965 - French President Charles de Gaulle announced that France was withdrawing from NATO to protest the domination of the U.S. in the organization.

● 1965 - Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10-12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to top $1 billion in unadjusted damages.

● 1965 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitched the eighth perfect game in major league baseball history, his 4th no-hitter.

● 1965 - The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.

● 1965 - Tibet is made an autonomous region of China

● 1966 - The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.

● 1967 - 1st successful test flight of a Saturn V

● 1968 - Committee of 100, pioneer British anti-nuclear group of 1950's and early 60's, dissolves itself.

● 1970 - A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.

● 1971 - Inmates seized control of the Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, NY. Nine guards that were held hostage died along with 32 of their captors when the prison was stormed four days later.

● 1971 - British diplomat freed after eight months; The British Ambassador, Geoffrey Jackson, is released eight months after being captured by extreme left-wing guerrillas in Uruguay.

● 1975 - Viking 2 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing

● 1976 - Death of Mao Zedong, 82, "The Great Helmsman," who led the world's most populous country for 27 years and survived repeated attacks on his leadership by brutally suppressing his opposition, most notably in the Cultural Revolution. Mao's "Red China" was also the last serious attempt by a major country to improve its living standards by operating outside the Western capitalist economy.

● 1980 - Eight activists from the Atlantic Life Community hammer nose cone of missile at GE plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, in the first of what would become an international movement of many dozens of "Plowshares" anti-nuclear direct actions.

● 1981 - Vernon E Jordan resigns as president of National Urban League

● 2004 - Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica reverses a decision by Minister of Education and Sport Ljiljana Čolić to require the teaching of both creationism and evolution in schools, and announces that Čolić will be replaced. {Proving politicians are scientific idiots the world over not just in the United States.}

● Roman Catholic:● St. Bettelin● St. Ciarán of Clonmacnoise● Sts. Felix & Constantia● St. Hyacinth● St. Isaac the Great● St. Joseph of Volokolamsk● St. Kieran● St. Omer● St. Osmanna● St. Peter Claver, priest● St. Severian● St. Wilfrida● St. Wulfhilda

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 27 (Civil Date: September 9)● St. Poemen the Great.● St. Poemen of Palestine.● St. Sabbas of Benephali.● St. Liberius, pope of Rome.● St. Hosius the Confessor, Bishop of Cordova.● Hieromartyr Kushka and St. Pimen (Poemen) of the Kiev Caves.● Martyr Anthusa.● Translation of the Relics of Saints Theognostus, Cyprian and Photius, Metropolitan of Moscow.● Great-Martyr Phanurius the newly-appeared of Rhodes.

● Eastern Orthodox:● Synaxis of the Theopatores Joachim and Anna (Grandparents of Jesus, Parents of Mary).

● Anglican: Commemoration of Constance & her companions

● Christian: St. Gorgonius, martyr

● Bulgaria, Luxembourg - Liberation Day (1944)

● California - Admission Day—31st state in the union (1850)

● Italy : Salerno Day-Allied landing (1943)

● Japan - Chrysanthemum Day (Kiku no Sekku).

● North Korea - Republic Day / National Day (1948).

● Tajikistan - Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"● US - National Grandparents' Day - ( Sunday )● Afghanistan - National Assembly Foundation Day (1964) - ( Wednesday )● Scotland - Fisherman's Walk Day - ( Friday )

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